All-Pro Football 2K8
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APF2K8 official PS3 cover
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| Developer(s) | Visual Concepts |
| Publisher(s) | 2K Sports |
| Distributor(s) | Take-Two Interactive |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
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| Genre(s) | Sports |
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Single-player Multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 74.27% (X360) 74.32% (PS3) |
| Metacritic | 75/100 (X360) 73/100 (PS3) |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | C+ |
| GameSpot | 7.5/10 |
| GameTrailers | 7.1/10 |
| IGN | 7.6/10 |
All-Pro Football 2K8 (abbreviated as APF2K8) is a football game for seventh generation consoles and the spiritual successor to the ESPN NFL 2K series. APF2K8 is the first football game to be published by 2K Sports since EA Sports purchased exclusive licenses to the intellectual properties of the NFL and NFLPA. John Elway, Barry Sanders, and Jerry Rice appear on the cover.
All-Pro Football 2K8 features a fictional league called the "All-Pro League", or 'APL'. The APL consists of 24 teams that are grouped into six divisions of four teams each. The league runs a sixteen-game schedule and holds a championship game at the end of the playoffs, similar to the NFL.
Since the exclusivity deal the NFL has with EA only covers active players, 2K contracted the individual rights to over 240 retired NFL players to appear in the game.
Even though there are no NFL teams in the game, the player can still create teams that resemble their NFL counterparts. A Create-a-Player feature allows the player to add in players that were not included in the roster.
While the game includes teams representing St. Louis and Las Vegas, neither of which have an NFL team (St. Louis had an NFL team at the time the game was made, but as of 2016, does not any longer), there are no teams representing Buffalo, Kansas City, Baltimore, Jacksonville, Nashville, Indianapolis, or New Orleans—all cities with real NFL teams. Cleveland and Cincinnati are both represented by one team representing Ohio, and only one team represents the San Francisco Bay Area instead of two. Green Bay is not represented, but a city nearby, Milwaukee, is instead.
Many of the teams in the game have one or more aspects that are veiled references to other elements of popular culture. While some link to sports teams past and present, others refer to TV, films, cars, comic books, American history and even Native American tradition.
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